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Carters Springs

Carters Springs, seen from above at true elevation

Carters Springs is a spring in Nevada, at a modelled elevation of 1,778 m. Freel Peak stands 3,305 m to the west, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Buffalo Spring, a spring 2.1 miles away. Fort Churchill to Wellington Back Country Byway passes 12 miles off.

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Coordinates38.83714, -119.62938

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Pinenut Shooting Range: 5.1 mi
  • Mt Siegel OHV Staging Area: 5.4 mi
  • Douglas County Fairground: 5.4 mi
  • Blackrock Park: 6.9 mi
  • Ranchos Aspen Park: 7.0 mi
Springs: 34
Historic sites: 9
  • Barney Riley: 5.4 mi
  • Snowshoe Thompson Historical Monument: 8.9 mi
  • Hoye Bridge: 13.2 mi
  • Old Jail: 17.7 mi
  • Kit Carson Historical Monument: 21.8 mi
Nature reserves: 8
Museums: 7
Cliffs: 6
Beaches: 6
Attractions: 6
  • Round Hill Pines Beach Resort: 20.3 mi
  • Zephyr Cove Beach: 20.8 mi
  • M. S. Dixie II Terminal: 20.9 mi
  • Tallac Historic Site: 23.5 mi
  • Palmyra Town Site: 23.7 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Genoa Falls: 17.2 mi
  • Lower King's Canyon Waterfall: 24.2 mi
  • Carson Falls: 24.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Gardens: 2
Artworks: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of Carters Springs. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Freel PeakW 276°3,305 m14.6 mi
Jobs SisterW 277°3,299 m13.8 mi
Jobs PeakW 277°3,233 m12.6 mi
Monument PeakWNW 292°3,068 m15.6 mi
Raymond PeakSW 214°3,055 m19.5 mi
Hawkins PeakWSW 243°3,052 m14.8 mi
Trimmer PeakW 279°3,016 m16.0 mi
East PeakWNW 296°2,899 m16.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3619:11
June solstice05:3419:4820:28
September equinox06:4718:2218:57
December solstice07:1415:5916:41

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353843485665737264534234
Precip in0.60.41.10.40.60.10.30.30.20.20.71.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Topaz Lake, 9 mi away.

Streamflow

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Feb–Jun — fullest in May, leanest in Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs1.31.82.72.82.91.90.90.80.40.61.11.1

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Pine Nut CK NR Gardnerville, NV, 4 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Wildlife nearby
  • Soft Lupine14 obs
  • twinleaf onion11 obs
  • Alkali Cusickiella11 obs
  • rough eyelashweed9 obs
  • Beckwith's Violet9 obs
  • Bitterroot8 obs
  • Humboldt River milkvetch8 obs
  • singleleaf pinyon7 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/7436472509

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